Dispensing and displaying carton



R. H. FITZ GERALD.

DISPENSING AND DISPLAYING CARTON.

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UNITED STATES RAY H. FITZ GERALD, 0F PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA.

DISPENSING AND DISPLAYING CARTON.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 23,1919. Serial No. 306,196.

To all whom it may concern:

lie it known that I, RAY H. F rrz GERALD, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Pittsburgh, in the county of Allegheny andState of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Dispensing and Displaying Cartons; and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertams Thisinvention relates to improvements in dispensing and display cartons andmore particularly to such as are made of paper or card board-one objectof the invention being to provide a carton for dispensing cylindricalarticles and to so construct the device that the major bulk of thearticles will be held back from the discharge outlet and to provide thecarton with a simple and eflicient tray, construction to receive thearticles passing out through the discharge opening and thus facilitatethe delivery of the articles to the customer.

\Vith this and other objects in view the invention consists in certainnovel features of construction and combinations of parts as hereinafterset forth and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings; Figure 1 is a perspective view of acarton, partly broken away, showing an embodiment of my invention; Fig.2 is a view of the blank; Fig. 3 is a view of the blank from which thetray is made; Fig. 3 is a View of the tray; Fig. 4 is a view of theblank from which the lining member and inclined bottom platform memberare made; Fig. 4 is a view of the combined lining and bottom platformmember, and Fig. 5 is a sectional view showing the manner in which thedischarge opening of the carton may be closed. The body 1 of the carton18 made rectangular in form, from a blank comprising front and backmembers 2, 3, and side members 4, 5. The side members 4, 5 are providedat their upper ends with flaps 6, 6 to be folded inwardly and the backmember 3 is made at its upper end with a flap 7 to overlie the flaps 6,6 andthus the top of the body of the carton is formed. The flap 7 may bemade with a gluing flange 8, which may be tucked in behind panel 2 asindicated in Fig. 1. The bottom of the carfrom the side members 15.

end with tongues 19.

ton is formed by flaps 9, 9 at the lower ends of the s1des 4, 5, and aflap '10 at the lower end of the back member 3. A flap 11 may beprovided at the upper end of the front member 2 and this flap may haveadvertismg matter thereon. The lower portion of the front member 2 iscut away to form an elongated discharge opening 12.

A shell or lining 13 is located within the body of the carton andcomprises a back Patented May 17, 1921.

member 14 and side members 15-15 as shown in Figs. 4 and 4 the front ofsaid lining member being open. The back member 14 is provided with amember 16 extend- 1ng from the line 17 (Fig. 4) and severed The member16 1S notched at 18 and provided at its free The member 16 is bentforwardly on the line 17 to provide an inclined platform 20 extendingforwardly and downwardly from the back member 14 to the front of thecarton at the bottom of the discharge opening 12. The member 16 is bentbackwardly on the line 21, Fig. 4 and made to project under the inclinedbottom platform and is also bent upwardly on the line 22 and the tongues19 caused to pass through the notches 18 and project above the face ofthe inclined bottom platform. g

The inclined platform of the bottom member will tend to cause thecylindrical articles within the carton to move forwardly, but theupstanding tongues will act as battles to hold back the-major bulk ofthe articles, permitting only the .front vertical tier of articles to bedisposed in a vertical plane in front of that of said tongues. When anarticle passes through the discharge opening 12, the next article in thefront tier will drop into position and an article will move from the topof the next tier to the top of the front tier of articles, and this willcontinue, as articles pass one after another through the dischargeopening, until only two articles remain on the bottom inclined platform.These last two articles will be held back by the tongues 19, and themerchant may cause them to pass over said tongues by into a tray 23,(with which the carton is provided) where it will be exposed to view andfrom which it can be readily grasped by the purchaser. The articlewithinthe tray will serve to hold back the article in line with thedischarge opening, and when an article is removed from the tray, thenext a article will take its place and another article in the first tierwill descend and assume a position in line w1th the discharge opening.The tray- 23 is made from a separate blank such as shown in Fig. 3 and1s dis? posed upon an extension 24 of the bottom member 10 at the lowerend of the back 3 of the carton and the end flaps 9 of the sides 4, 5 ofthe carton are provided with tongues 25 which underlie the bottom ofsaid tray so as tovbe disposed between the latter and the extension 24.The tray 23 comprises a" vide a notch 33 when said extension has beenfolded to form the front wall 29 of the tra The ends 27 of the trayenter between the sides of the body of the carton and the sides of theinserted lining and the lugs 28 on said ends of the tray project abovethe upper edge of the discharge opening 12 so that they may engage thefront 2 of thecarton and thus hold the tray in proper position.

' The tray may be moved inwardly until its front is 'even with the frontof the carton and then the bottom extension 24 may be folded upwardlyand its free edge portion 24 inserted through the opening 12 andpermitted to rest against the inner face of the front of thecarton,-thus closing the discharge opening. When the tray is slid intothe body of the carton, the bottom of said tray will move under theinclined platform 20 and the ends 27 will slide between the liningmember and the sides of the carton.

Various changes might be made in the details of construction of myinvention without departing from the spirit thereof or limiting itsscope and hence I do not wish to restrict myself to the precise detailsherein set forth.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters-Patent, is

1.'-The combination-with the body of a carton having a dischar eopening, of a tray communicating wit said discharge opening, an inclinedbottom platform, and

bafile tongues projecting upwardly from said inclined\bottom platformrearwardly of said discharge opening.

2. The combination with the body portion of a carton, of a separatelining member within said body portion and having a front opening, aninclined bottom integral with said lining member and having a partprovided with tongues rojecting upwardly from said inclined bottom Iwithin said lining.

3. The combination with the body of a carton having a discharge opening,of a lining member comprising a-back and sides, the back of said liningmember having an extension forming an inclined bottom for the carton,said extension having an integral part provided with tongues passingthrough and projecting above the upper face of the inclined bottomplatform rearwardly from the discharge opening of the carton.

4. A display carton comprising a body portion having a discharge openingand an extension projecting forwardly from its bottom, a tray mountedupon said extension in front of said discharge opening and connectedwith the body of the carton, said body portion having flaps overlyingsaidforward extension of the bottom, and a lining member disposed insaid body portion forming an inclined bottom platform and tonguesprojecting through and above the upper face of said platform rearwardlyof the discharge opening of the carton.

5. The combination with the body portion of a carton having a dischargeopening and a bottom extension below said opening,'of a tray mounted onsaid bottom extension, said tray made from a single blank and comprisinga bottom, a folded front, end members connected with the body of thecarton, and tongues projecting from the end members and entering betweenthe folds of the front of the tray.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribing witnesses.

RAY H. FITZ GERALD. Witnesses:

G. F. DOWNING,

W. S. Home.

